[brainchild2b]

Does anybody have an applescript that would create a new OS X user account? Or possible a realbasic plugin that you know of? How could I create a user account with the command line? I could use the RB command line plugin to have it do this with a GUI.

The reason is I monitor and maintain many of my clients machines. I'd like to create an installer package of some sort that they download from me and have it run to create a user account and some directories.

It's fine if they have to authenticate to have it create (obviously) they would know their own password.

[brainchild2b]

it would also be good if I could have it set me to the proper will group.

[brainchild2b]

Does anybody even know how to do this from the command line? "adduser" doesn't work in Mac OS X bash. Help!

[brainchild2b]

This creates the user bob with a low uid 006. It assumes that no other program on my clients computers will have 006 as there user ID. This prevents the user from showing up in the Mac OS X login window.

Code:
sudo niutil -create / /users/bob
sudo niutil -createprop / /users/bob uid 006
sudo niutil -createprop / /users/bob realname "FTP User"
sudo niutil -createprop / /users/bob home "/Users/ftpuser"
sudo niutil -createprop / /users/bob shell "/bin/tcsh"

I'm not clear on these two commands however. Is this the user ID group? How could I add the person to the administrator group? It appears the test I created can only read files.

Code:
sudo niutil -createprop / /users/bob gid 20

What does this do with the password? Is it setting it?

Code:
sudo niutil -createprop / /users/bob passwd "*"

If the command above sets the password do I really need to do this?

Code:
sudo passwd test

[brainchild2b]

Originally posted by brainchild2b:
This creates the user bob with a low uid 006. It assumes that no other program on my clients computers will have 006 as there user ID. This prevents the user from showing up in the Mac OS X login window.

Code:
sudo niutil -create / /users/bob
sudo niutil -createprop / /users/bob uid 006
sudo niutil -createprop / /users/bob realname "FTP User"
sudo niutil -createprop / /users/bob home "/Users/ftpuser"
sudo niutil -createprop / /users/bob shell "/bin/tcsh"

I'm not clear on these two commands however. Is this the user ID group? How could I add the person to the administrator group? It appears the test I created can only read files.

Code:
sudo niutil -createprop / /users/bob gid 20

What does this do with the password? Is it setting it?

Code:
sudo niutil -createprop / /users/bob passwd "*"

If the command above sets the password do I really need to do this?

Code:
sudo passwd test

Here's how to add them to the administrators group

Code:
sudo niutil -appendprop / /groups/admin users bob

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